Amazing sculpture
Posted Jun 4, 2011, 1:12 AM UTC
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Cheapskate artist, couldn't afford enough bronze for the whole statue.
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Bronze is is expensive, like $5 per pound. That looks to be about $1000 worth of bronze.
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What's your point? Finish the fucking statue.
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I'm actually fairly interested in how he finished it. I don't really look at the bits he left out, I notice the face and the shoes and whatever's in his hands. The rest is just filler. It brings it to your attention that you don't normally notice that stuff.
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It has the opposite effect on me. My attention's drawn to the negative space within the statue, so the statue's like the frame within which a constantly changing portrait of the sea is encased in.
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Never looked at it that way.
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You can say...he, Half Assed it.
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you can say... he no-assed it
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I think he really must have given somebody a hand.
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That's easily said coming from someone who is rich as fuck.
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That sounds a lot like CLASS WARFARE!
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That is is a good point.
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All the pics on his site are tiny. Here's some more of his work for those interested
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Sadly it looses a lot of its effect after the first one. :[
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He's Johnny One Note.
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Has he ever seen any objects other than baggage?!
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Seriously. Even the monkey's carrying one. But perhaps that's part of the message: we all have our own baggage.
EDIT: Oh! It's part of a series called "Les Voyageurs" (the voyagers, I'm guessing). So I suppose it makes sense, since they're all traveling.
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Yeah, definitely. As a photographer I really get sick of some of the one-trick ponies I've seen and met. They know how to take one kind of photo then just sort of quit.
Even the hugely talented super-pros like Jill Greenberg only do one kind of photo. I try to keep it fresh with every creation.
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I personally would have done Atlas holding the globe, with the globe shattered, one arm missing, most of the torso, and a leg.
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Most art is about repetition, of themes, patterns, styles.
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I know, but some repetition is effective, some isn't. I just feel like this kind of art is far more impacting the first time.
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It doesn't have to be.
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Like porn?
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There's more stuff in OPs link that isn't "Man Holding Luggage".
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LOSES. GOD DAMNIT.
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One is cool. But unfortunately he doesn't deviate from anything and it is almost like looking at the same thing again and again.
Wish artist would have more variety in their work.
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My mind wants to fill it in so bad...
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Luckily, Adobe Photoshop has a new feature called Content Aware Fill that fixes problems with photos like this.
Thanks, Photoshop!
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There are faces on his....everything. This is nightmare fodder, pure and simple.
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Holy shit, it's Envy from Fullmetal Alchemist!
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It's the T-1000!
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This edit made this work of art go from "incredible" to "hilarious" in about 3.5 nanoseconds.
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You might be interested in gestalt theory.
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Thanks. Learned something.
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Tha 'll do, bobby. Th t'll do.
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(this reminds me of something
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This is exactly what it is like when I get the vision symptoms of a migraine.
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You can see through people? That sounds more like superpowers than migraines.
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Same for me! Weirdest thing!
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I hate those fucking auras. :(
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I only hate them because I know it means my skull will split in half any second.
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And you can't drive, either.
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You can see the background through a solid object? That's a super power. Too bad it hurts so bad.
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This and random colors everywhere
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LOOK AT MY SCULPTURE MY SCULPTURE'S AMAZING
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GIVE IT A LICK, IT TASTES JUST LIKE IRON
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WHEN IT'S OVER EXPLAINED, IT IS PRETENTIOUS AND LAME
THEN UNPRETENTIOUS AGAIN, WHEN YOU DRAW ON A WIN-KY
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OOH, THAT'S ARTY!
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DO YOU THINK SO?
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Some asshole will probably vandalize it by filling in the missing pieces with bronze
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That was brilliant. You have to love street art that makes you laugh. I especially liked the one with the tiny door and window.
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Or just by kicking the top half and breaking it in half?
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Link? I'd like to give the real OP an upboat.
Edit: What the fuck? Why would you downvote someone for trying to find and give karma to someone who actually deserves it? And now bring on the hivemind who will doubtlessly rag on me for bitching about downvotes... I'm legitimately curious about why.
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Do you really care about karma that much?
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No, I am seriously interested in why people downvote somebody who is looking to call out a reposter and give credit to the person who deserves it. If I cared about karma that much, I would have just let bygones be bygones, because I know what happens when you ask about downvotes: you get downvoted.
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If I cared about karma that much, I would have just let bygones be bygones,
Isn't that an oxymoron?
Wouldn't it be, if you didn't care about karma then you would let bygones be bygones?
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I'm the Batman.
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Quit reposting the same shitty picture buddy. At least mix it up from time to time. You are worse than all the reposts on reddit combined.
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Damn French artists, you guys never finish any statues because you always claim to be, "Le tired" -.-
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well, have a nap
AND ZEN FINISH ZEE STATUE
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This reminds me of this
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That's awesome! Where is it?
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There are many of these in the world. I can recall seeing them in Rotorua, New Zealand and a few other places.
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I personally thought it looked like he was going to work, and it being about being empty on the inside
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Yes, the emptiness of living a mundane life.
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This guys life was hardly mundane.
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What is represented in the art would be the life of the subject, not necessarily the artist, though the artist might share some empathy with his subject.
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Oh. I thought he was, like, coasting through life and stuff. Yours is better though.
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I don't know, I want to think the location of the piece was not a mistake, just because I think the whole 'empty on the inside' theme is so overdone. I like to think of it as him carrying 'the sea' within him wherever he goes, like the image of the sea is a part of who he is as a person.
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those who work are never empty inside. those who fuck around are.
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Saying something should be so doesn't make it actually so.
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sure it does, you are for example a stupid asshat.
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What's it saying to you?
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french don't like to finish things
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I like your take on it. Notice how the ground at the right foot seems to be sticking to his boot? Its like he's walking through really thick mud.
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To me I think it's an artist trying to make a deep and new creation but is trying too hard.
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soul? what the fuck does religion have to do with this? jesus h christ! take an art class.
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soul? what the fuck does religion have to do with this? jesus h christ! take an art class.
Fuck off. The word does not immediately have to mean Christianity, or even a religion. Even nonbelievers can use it in a metaphorical sense. Atheists like you are just as bad as fundamentalists.
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who is jesus h christ?
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To me it's saying our existences on this earth are ethereal in the grand scheme of things. We're just footsteps in the sand. Tide in, tide out, and we're gone. The man with the suitcase is fading because against the infinitude of time, he may as well not have existed at all.
Somehow, I find this beautiful, not depressing.
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the empty migrant
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He does seem to be carrying some baggage.
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If you look closely the baggage is carrying him.
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To me it says he really liked that lighthouse.
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Maybe he's the lighthouse keeper. What a cool job.
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It should be entitled 'commuting to work'.
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you're incomplete until you travel.
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A hollow man
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We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats’ feet over broken glass In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom Remember us—if at all—not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.
-T.S. Eliot
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i've only felt 30% human for a long time, like 'me''s been disappearing and being replaced with nothing. just empty. i actually can't comprehend the reason as to why some people on the thread are asking this thing to be finished - maybe they like things complete. i like it this way and it's perfect for me because i'm walking around but it's like i don't exist and people can't see me. i think i'm severely depressed lol.
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hollywood effect? nostalgia of long gone lifestyle? homage to the individuals that designed that bucolic landscape?
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That's the thing about art, sometimes the only way to say something is through art, you just can't say it any other way.
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We can surmise all we want about how the artist may have "justified" the work to the artistic community or to whoever commissioned it...but just know that the inspiration behind just about everything is "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if..."
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I think he left more than his heart in San Francisco
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I'm pretty Type-A about this kind of stuff. I want to ask somebody: "What is it supposed to be? What did the artist intend for me to feel?"
It's aesthetically interesting, but I don't connect with it on any level that gives me a deeper meaning. It feels like there should be some. For example, why do there seem to be two distinct "bumps" in the missing area? Was that intentional? Why? I don't get it.
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Do you know who the subject is? You might not recognize him with both ears.
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Good job. I think the artist captured his pain very well, the look in his eyes, the expression of his face. The reason for the incompleteness of the statue; he never felt as a whole person, complete.
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I feel like there's probably a specific angle from which it is intended to be viewed, which would impart some subtle meaning obscured by the apparent surreal quality of the piece. Or maybe there's another part of the sculpture elsewhere which adds some context.
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The Hollow Men
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Photoshopped.
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the water in the left picture looks a little messed up in the background. not to mention the statue...
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I noticed that, maybe it is just the picture, but it does look like someone has messed with it.
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I should have figured this fact, but I won't lie my brain almost killed itself trying to figure out what the fuck was going on here
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Examines the pixels.
Yep, amazing.
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You guys are going for the obvious, here. Look at his face, there's a lot of sadness there. A lot of pain.
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Alright, who ate this statue?
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His heart is at sea..
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Render bug. Try updating your display drivers, or installing the latest Reality patch.
I bet it's an issue with the Z-buffer. He'd probably render fine without a lighthouse or boat behind him.
But in this case, it's a feature.
did you also try turning it off and turning it back on?